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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Tesla Inc has been granted permission to start selling its Shanghai-made Model Y sport utility vehicle.
On Monday, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology posted the approval on its website.
Tesla now sells its Model 3 electric cars in China and is building a new car manufacturing facility in Shanghai to manufacture its Model Y SUVs. It applied for approval to sell the Shanghai-made Model Y SUV earlier this month.
It started delivering vehicles made at its Shanghai plant last December and sold more than 13,000 vehicles in China in October.
The company has started exporting Model 3 cars made in China to Europe and announced last week that it also plans to start manufacturing electric vehicle chargers in China in 2021.
Reporting by Yilei Sun in Beijing and Brenda Goh in Shanghai; Edited by Shri Navaratnam and Stephen Coates
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